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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pertaining to pope |
| Synonyms: | arrogant, dogmatic, overbearing, papal, pompous, pretentious, puffy |
| Main Entry: | fustian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pompous |
| Synonyms: | arrogant, boastful, bombastic, conceited, flaunting, high and mighty, highfalutin, lofty, ostentatious, pontifical, portentous, pretentious, puffed up, ranting, self-centered, self-important, vain, vainglorious |
| Main Entry: | judicial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | legal |
| Synonyms: | administrative, authoritative, constitutional, discriminating, distinguished, equitable, forensic, impartial, judgelike, judiciary, juridical, jurisdictional, juristic, lawful, legalistic, magisterial, official, pontifical, principled, regular, statutory |
| Notes: | judicial means 'pertaining to judges or the courts' and judicious means 'prudent, carefully considered'; judicial refers to judgment as it is exercised by the court, judicious to judgment as exercised by an individual |
| Main Entry: | pompous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | arrogant, egotistic |
| Synonyms: | affected, bloated, boastful, bombastic, conceited, flatulent, flaunting, flowery, fustian, grandiloquent, grandiose, high and mighty, high-flown, highfaluting, imperious, important, inflated, magisterial, magniloquent, narcissistic, orotund, ostentatious, overbearing, overblown, pontifical, portentous, presumptuous, pretentious, puffed up, puffy, rhetorical, self-centered, self-important, selfish, showy, sonorous, stuck-up, supercilious, turgid, uppity, vain, vainglorious, windy |
| Antonyms: | dull, modest, plain, simple, unassuming |
| Main Entry: | religious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning belief in divinity |
| Synonyms: | believing, born-again, canonical, churchgoing, churchly, clerical, deistic, devotional, devout, divine, doctrinal, ecclesiastical, god-fearing, godly, holy, ministerial, moral, orthodox, pietistic, pious, pontifical, prayerful, priestly, pure, reverent, righteous, sacerdotal, sacred, sacrosanct, saintlike, saintly, scriptural, sectarian, spiritual, supernatural, theistic, theological |
| Antonyms: | agnostic, atheistic, irreligious, ungodly |
| Main Entry: | preachy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sermonizing |
| Synonyms: | moralizing, pontifical, sententious |
| Main Entry: | papal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pertaining to the pope |
| Synonyms: | apostolic, papistic, pontifical |
| Main Entry: | puffed-up |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pompous |
| Synonyms: | affected, bloated, boastful, bombastic, conceited, flatulent, flaunting, flowery, fustian, grandiloquent, grandiose, high and mighty, high-flown, highfaluting, hoity-toity, imperious, important, inflated, magisterial, magniloquent, narcissistic, orotund, ostentatious, overbearing, overblown, pontifical, portentous, presumptuous, pretentious, puffed up, puffy, rhetorical, self-centered, self-important, selfish, showy, sonorous, stuck-up, supercilious, turgid, uppity, vain, vainglorious, windy |
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